Given the large amount of smoke and the proximity of the flames the residents of Alhaurin el Grande have decided to take their chainsaws and go up to the area of Cara los Tajos and Ardalejos, where They’re helping to the teams to cut pines to make firewalls. The fire has already reached the area of the Casa del Guardamontes and the Fuente del Acebuche. In this municipality, the areas of Buenavista and La Paca.
Column of smoke seen from one of the houses of Alhaurín el Grande
Column of smoke seen from one of the houses of Alhaurín el Grande
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Aitana Sanchez
“We are experiencing this with great anguish because we have a house right in the lower part of the mountains in La Paca,” says Yolanda Serón, a resident of Alhaurín el Grande. “They gave us 20 minutes to get the essential things out, mostly because of the smoke”.
Photo from the opposite side of the mountain
Photo from the opposite side of the mountain
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Yolanda Seron
Given the advance of the flames and the evictions that are taking place, the municipal sports center has been enabled to attend to those affected. The highway TO-404 between Alhaurin e la Torre and Alhaurin el Grande it remains cut to traffic from kilometer 9 to kilometer 13 in both directions.